Connect
MJA
MJA

Detecting people at higher risk for colorectal neoplasia in a community-based screening program

Rosie G Scott, John T Edwards, Richard M Mendelson and Geoffrey M Forbes
Med J Aust 2003; 179 (6): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05560.x
Published online: 15 September 2003

Rosie G Scott,* John T Edwards, Richard M Mendelson, Geoffrey M Forbes§


  • 1 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
  • 3 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Royal Perth Hospital, PO Box X2213 GPO, Perth, WA 6000 



Acknowledgements: 

The screening program received funding from the Health Department of Western Australia. We thank Dr Lin Fritschi, Mrs Noellene Foster and Mr Christopher Wood for their help in carrying out the screening program.

  • 1. Mandel JS, Bond JH, Church TR, et al. Reducing mortality from colorectal cancer by screening for faecal occult blood. N Engl J Med 1993; 328: 1365-1371.
  • 2. Hardcastle JD, Chamberlain JO, Robinson MHE, et al. Randomised controlled trial of faecal-occult-blood screening for colorectal cancer. Lancet 1996; 348: 1472-1477.
  • 3. Kronborg O, Fenger C, Olsen J, et al. Randomised study of screening for colorectal cancer with faecal-occult-blood test. Lancet 1996; 348: 1467-1471.
  • 4. UK Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Screening Trial Investigators. Single flexible sigmoidoscopy screening to prevent colorectal cancer: baseline findings of a UK multicentre randomised trial. Lancet 2002; 359: 1291-1299.

Author

remove_circle_outline Delete Author
add_circle_outline Add Author

Comment
Do you have any competing interests to declare? *

I/we agree to assign copyright to the Medical Journal of Australia and agree to the Conditions of publication *
I/we agree to the Terms of use of the Medical Journal of Australia *
Email me when people comment on this article

Online responses are no longer available. Please refer to our instructions for authors page for more information.